setting: Austin, Texas
characters:
- a father
- his daughter
- various chupacabras
- various border patrol agents
- some people to kill righteously
publisher: Trapdoor Book2.
synopsis: the story of the reconciliation between a daughter and her long-gone father, as complicated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zombie
place in The Bunnyhead Chronicles: first
date: to be announced
state of the writer: happiness
comment: on [...]

Or, the logo Jen Michalski’s got up over there’s so cool, I have to paste it here. Click on it for the post on “Exodus.”

Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too:

looks like that “Lonegan’s Luck” (a zombie western) I had in NEW GENRE a few months ago’s going to be in The Best Horror of the Year volume 2, ed. by Ellen Datlow. Very cool, very excited.

For me, anyway. However, the caveat — movies I haven’t seen yet:
THE HURT LOCKER: the title kept me away, yeah. very undescriptive. or, maybe makes perfect sense afterward, but none before.
500 DAYS OF SUMMER: dug the trailer, dig the actors, heard great stuff about it, but, being not-horror, it kept slipping down the list.
THE FANTASTIC [...]

AVATAR 3D in IMAX, wow. it’s SCANNER DARKLY and FERN GULLY and BRAVEHEART as percolated up through DANCES WITH WOLVES and POCAHONTAS. loved it in spite of those last two, even. and, though I can’t find it in his bibliography now, I was pretty sure I’d read a Samuel Delaney book/story about wearing bodies like [...]

which is what Bo and Luke used to always do, once the day’s chases and jumps and explosive archery fun was over. but, for me, “Jukin” is having another story in the cool JUKED. “Wolf Island.” completely safe for work, unless you work at a pet store.

new (old) story, “The Many Stages of Grief” (one of my maybe four favorites ever. of mine, I mean. which, yeah, that’s like 180th in the Great List of Stories I Love). the debut issue of PALIMPSEST. Also, a short story “Girls” (only a third as good as the Crue song, yeah) and an essay, [...]

New interview. All kinds of fun, as always. If I remember correctly, too, that pic there, the shirt I’m wearing, I borrowed it from somebody in the driveway of the photographer’s. Had a red outline of the state of Arkansas, I think. Kind of liked it, but then he wanted it back. People (okay: one [...]

Especial for Halloweentime, “The Ones That Got Away,” the somewhat-title story from the new collection and proud participant in Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace’s Phantom: Going Beyond the Scare.

One of the big axioms of storytelling is that you know a character best by the decisions he or she makes under extreme circumstances. It’s why you push your characters out into the street, see how they react when traffic’s slamming in from all sides at once. Granted, you can rig your story so that [...]

Got an article/review/essay (‘response?’) up for it over at Popmatters. Kind of wanted to call it Geppetto mon Amour, but figured that might show my roots too much. Those being all in France, yes.
The LINK. Would slap some cool images up here, too, but the guys who do the art over at Popmatters have [...]

I read this review then, no lie, went upstairs, found some shrimp on the counter, ate them. which, for those in the know [see below], kind of matters.
too, I’ve noticed my blog posts in here lately are more ‘blog’ posts, as in, they take the space where a blog post would go, but, really, they’re [...]

“In the Beginning” and “The Wages: an Argument,” over at the brand-new shiny sparkly SpringGun Press.
Really strange that they posted this morning, though — or, that that Wages-one’s real now anyway. Because I just now started the already-excellent Pontypool Changes Everything, which opens like this:
That night I had terrible dreams I was killing people. When [...]

One of my favorite Bowie songs, sure, but, too, the name of a story of mine up over at Everyday Genius today.

Chapter one’s up, over at the very cool Plots With Guns.

Iron Horse 11.3’s out in the world now — in my mailbox anyway — and it’s got one of my favorite stories I’ve written in it, “Little Lambs.” Also a self-interview (it involved telepathic dogs, possibly aliens — the usual?). Too, it’s the alumni issue, so it’s especially cool to me, being in this with [...]